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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1979-06-21, Page 21'• • • * • 4 *** • • * . • . „e. ir go, 4,4 ' * .. 44•4, . 4',;404.0 . 4 • . • 4 4 * ' 0 :* 4 S• HOWING THEIR STUFF—Huron County 4-H, grooming skills learned that morning at the first Club members display the ShowmanshiP and clinic of its kind in Ontario. Province's first 4-H horse , , showmanship cIinic held For the first time hi Ontario 4-H Horse - Club members Met for a showmanship clinic held in Huron. Members from the foer herse clubs in Huron County gathered Saturday, June 16 at the Dungannon fair grounds on the west side of the town. Leaders and members from the clubs provided 10 horses ear the group to work with. The day began with the young people being divided randomly into groups, followed by clipping and brushing demonstrations, The 4-H members bathed and prepared their horses for the afternoon show. The young people learned conditioning of the herse, halter training and the art of showmanship. • Many new members joined the horses clubs this year, said Robyn Theedom of Clinton, club leader and judge for the day. Of the 48 Huron County members, 38 came to the clinic. Appraimately 25 ot them had • never shown a horse before, They did an awfully good job," said Robyn Theedom. The four county clubs include the Seaforth Silver Spurs, the North Huron Trail Blazers, the Howlett and Turnberry Horse and Pony Club, and the Exeter 4,11 Horse Club. At the end of theday, the leaders and members evaluated the clinic. During the afternoon show, the members competed in showmanship classes in groups deter mined by the amount of experience the young people had previously gamed, Competitors were graded and given rea- sons for the placements. "We were quite pleased with the results, said Ms, Theedorn. Although the event was the first of its kind ev er to be held in Ontario, its success this year indicates that it will not be the last. • BEFORE THE SHOW—Club leader Robyn ThfiecIQM Shaws 4-H members from the Huron County clubs, Seaforth, Exeter, North Huron,. and Howick, how to clip a horse for show purposes. SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, JUNE: 21, 1979 BY ALICE GIBB One Wednesday mornmg, Grade 13 geography students at Seaforth District Nigh School tried something . a little different,a land use game. ' The purpose of the exercise, led by Wendy Fisher • of the Huron County planning department, was to introduce students to the planning process followed hi drawing up official and secondary plans. The students also had • a chance to r • (Second Section Pages IA ' discover how well they know their county, and some of the problems that can result - when rural and urban populations live side , by side. Miss Fisher has been travelling to county high schools for the past several months with her public awareness program on planning for students. Although her job in the schools finished on Wednesday, she sends teachers a kit of planning materials and hopes they'll take the initiative end English -French survey shows some LI BY PAUL ELI,IS Quebeckers don't want to separate,. They want to bleed the rest of Canada and are keeping separation as a big axe over the government' This statement was one of the stronger anti -Quebec comments received from readers .who completed the Expositor's • French -English Relations Surveycon ducted over the last two weeks. Howevermost of the comments were much less harsh. From the majority of the answers it seems people in Seaforth and area are in favour of a bicultural partnership between Quebec and the rest of Caeada, as opposed to eliminating French by either assimilation or separation. Here are the 13 questions in the survey, and how each was answered: (1) Canada should be considered: • a) unilingual b) bilingual • c) multilingual 44,S% of the readers felt that Canada should be unileigual, while 37% chose multilingual. Perhaps surprisingly, only Iti,5% favoured bilingualism, , -. • disagreed and 7.5% disagreed strongly. (5) Do you believe that Quebec could survive as an independent nation? 18.5% do believe that Quebec could survive, but 52% think it could not 29.5% almost one third Were not sure about this question, one which is at the very heart ofthe separatien issue. (6) Should any attempt at separation by a province be met by force? If1.5% said yes, but 81:5% said no. Of the 81.5%, 26% said that separation should definitely not be met by force, (7) Can a person who 'supeorts the Parti Quebecois still be considered a loyal Canadian? More than half ef the people surveyed, 55.5%, feel that the answer to this question should be no, 26%think that it is within the bounds of being a loyal Canadian to support the P.O., while 18.5% were unsure. (8) The govertiment of Quebec has made French the only official language of that provitiee. Do you think that this is fair? 11% believe this action to be fair. However, 89% feel that it was not. 52% think that it was very definitelyunfair. 1 . , • 1 • . . , • , • . . . • the present time. However, only 44.5% of the readers surveyed agreed with it, as opposed to 55.5% who thought that it was wrong. (12) The province of Quebec belongs to all Canadians, net just to those who speak French." How do you feel about this stnenent? This was the only questioh on which there was almost total agreem?.nt, 96% either agreed or agreed storngly, while the other 4% were uncetaire No one disagreed with the statement. (13) Do you desire to learnt to speak French? • .recently, this survey was given to a few French speaking people there. Many of the answer$ received *were the same as those from Seaforth. It was easy to distinguish the pro separatists from the anti separatists by the answers to four particular questione. One salesman in a store was obviously against separation, as he felt that Quebec could not survive assn independent nation; and any attempt. at separatipn should be met by force. He also felt that supporters 'of the Parti Quebecois are not loyal Canadians and that a bicultural partnership between the English and the French is the best form of • 40% of those who answered want to learn French' • Apparently, 40.5% of Expositor readers who answered do wish to learn French, While ' 48% do not • 7,5%, the procrastinators, wish to learn the language tooled ay, but not right away.' • After reviewing the results ofthe s tirvey; • • The prime ittinister should be 85% think (2) Every Canadian should be able to speak: * a) English b) French c) English and French d) English and one other language According to 48% of readers who answered, all Canadians should be able to speak English, while only 3.5% choose only French. Bilingualism for every Canadian was the choice of 37% of those serveyed, as each C and D received 18.5%, (,). A Member of the Route ofCommons or the Senate should be able to speak: a) English or French • b) English and Freneh • 63% felt that either English or Frerich is • al1 that is necessary, but 33% think both shOuld be required. (4) How do you feel about the following statement? The Prime ,Minister of nada should be fluent in both Prench arid 85% agreed with this statement, With 33% of those agreeing strongly, 7.5% (9) get a secondary school graduation, diploma, a student should show the ability to talkie French." HOW do you feel about this statement? 26% agreed and 11% agreed strongly. 26% disagreed. while 37% disagreed strongly, ObviOusly. 'natty people ate against any form of required bilingtialipm, (10) Three potsibilties have always tutted for the English•Prench relationship in Canada. Which do you prefer? •a) Assimilation of the French b) Bicultural partnership e) Separation into two independent • natiOnt. As was mentioned h for a bicultural partnership was prefeired v 66,5% of the people surveyed. 2,6)/o favoured astimilaton of the French, while Only 7,5% supported separation. (11) Shad& French and Etiglish be given equal status en all ttampt, nine cheques, fortes arid doeuments of Me Government Of Canada? Thi equal status situation is in cifect at it becomes obvious that this entire issue stivs up a lot of strong feelings among Seatorth area residents, The comments • which accompanied the answers to the questions, including the one given at the beginning of this article, prove that. One of the Comments was, "this Prench-English fracas would never have come up,, only for General DeGaulle and Pierre Trutleate'' Another reader wrote, "Why should, we have to have French in the rest of Ganda to please them (the Quebeckers)? After all. England won the war aginst France fair arid tqttare." On the other hand, one comment said that it was fair for Quebec to inake French its only offieial language, because Of certain provincial legislation in Ontariti. Th,,S includes Bill 17, passed in 1912, w inch restricted French as a language Of instruct kite er Ontario schOols. The single deist commonly expressed thought w4at.' that there are Many other nationalities just as important to Canada as' are the French. All groups, whether it be French, Dutch Gordian or any other, have a place in this country, several readers said. However, a ethimion language is needed, and most agreed that it should be English, While SIMIS students visited in Quebec • relationshiP. However, one than surveyed .on the street had different vieWs. He believed that Quebec could survive as an independent nation, and, should. in fact separate from the rest of Canada, lie was not sure that suppotters of the P.Q. would ell want to be 'loyal Canadians, and felt very strongly against having separation met by force, as he was in favour of haying Quebec leave the country, ' Unfortunately, no one on .the Seaforth District High Sehool's Gtade 10 History trip to Quebec had enough time to survey enough Quebeckers to establish a pattern on their views on these qiiestions• . A very definite pattern was developed from the results of the sur“„) in Seaforth, Because of the lack of people in this area with French batkgrounds, very few pro separatism responses were received. Most people here seem to be aginst separation by Quebec. A lot Of people appear to be getting tired of the whole issue, especially those who are neither English or Ftench. They have had t� learn te speak and live in English, and feel that the French should do the same, several replies said. This turvey was condensed and modified front a tet of questions found in a book called Canada's Century, by Allan S. E % ans and 1 t Martinello. The publishers of the book ate McGraw, Hill, Ryerson. A was said when the Expositor first pubushed the survey questions, there are no real correct answeteto these questions, rimy Pertetial opinions, • • carry :on the exercise next year. Miss Fisher said she finds there isn't enough emphasis on local studies in the high school and when "the laboratory is sitting right outside" the school doors, she thinks teaching staff s could make more Use of it, • Wednesday's exercise at .SDHS started with a tape recorded tale about Uncle Henry's acres. The premise of the tape, prepared by the Rural Development Outreach Project staff was when Uncle Henry died he left behind 25 acres of land, one and half miles from town, just off the highway. Half the land was rolling and. ceveted with hardwood trees and the other half was weli-drained, cleared, and level. When, he wrote his will, Uncle' Henry cleverly left the land to whichever of his six relatives could come up with the best land use suggestion for the property. On the tape, the relatives offer a variety of proposals for the property from use as a recreation site, to a feedlot operation, and as the location of a shopping plaza. The. Grade 13 students listened to the advantages of each option presented by the relatives, and then decided what they considered the worst and best land use of those suggested. Turning the property into, a family camping and recreation site was the popular choice with this class, and the shopping plaza and use of the property for, a subdivision were the ' least popelar, alternatives. The students felt if the land was left in its natural state, it would be open to vandalism and become an eyesore, that shopping plaza wasn't viable since the land was too far outside the town, and it, would make township road maintenance more costly! ZONING LAW ' Miss Fisher pointed out that under a ministerial zoning law in effect in Huron County, the county prohibits commercial establishments of over 5,000 square feet in size in a rural atea, without an amendment to the zoning 'order. ' '• Miss Fisher personally favoured using the land for a mill and drying operation, another alternative offered, since the felt this agricultural -commercial use would tie in with the agricultural base of the surrounding community and the truck traffic generated by the operation Would be on, rural roads rather than through the town. , • The students also discussed the points which must be. considered in protecting Huron County's primarily agricultural base and the regulations regarding severance of buildings from a farm. The next exertiseVg. the students was to fill in a Map Huron County, naming the townships and major towns and villages. While this reporter failed the test, Miss Fisher assured the Seaforth students they had done better than most classes when faced with the exercise. Don Morton, the student's' geography teacher, sug- gested their knowledge "it due to all those gravel runs." The third part of Miss Fisher's present, ation was to introduce students to 'the planning process dallied out in the county when a township or • village draws up a secondary plan. • SECONDARYPEANS • Although Heron County has a broad Official plan, many townships Want a more Specific and detailed plan for their area. The town of Seaforth Will also be • preparing a more detailed plan in the future. ' *. Miss Fisher emphasized that the process in drawing up secondary plans does take time. When a township such as Usborne •TonWship in the 'Oath of the county "reqttes t , a secondary plan, the planning depart ent:Starta researching the township taking into acc, int topography, soils', poptita on eharacteristics and other iiiitt. tem which will influente land use in the After the research staff has familiarized . themselves with the township, they get together with the president of the local federation of agriculture and Set up a series ' of informal line meetings around the township. '• Miss Fisher said the planning depart- ment consistently tries to emphasize public participation in the Secondary planning process -"It's their (the residents) plan, so we want to know what the residents want ' After the line meetings, more public • workshops are held on the agricultural uses of the township—what trends residents see in the future, whether crops may change; I on the urban development in the township, recreation—is there enough recreational land in the township, should there be more lakefront or river front lots; on the natural environment including erosion and wood, lots on farms and the extractive resources of the township. The planners tape the proceedings and suggestions and take notes for future reference. The next step with the Usborne Township plan was for planners to draw up • a draft copy of a plan and submit it to all the residents in the township for their • comments and criticisms. Another public. participation meeting is held, the plan revised and published in book form; and then submitted to county council for three readings. COUNCIL DECIDES Miss Fisher told the students to retnember that the planning board only makes recommendations, and the elected , county council • officials make the final decisions. • After. cntintY council approVes the second- ary plan, it must receive final approval from the Ministry of Housing. Miss Fisher said under the Usborne • Township secondary plan, there are restricted agricultural areas around towns and villages of Exeter, Elimville and KirktOn While the. Hewn Counry official plan allows a retiring farther to sever land on the farm for a retirement home, she said many townships have made further restrictions in their secondary plan, so the farmer who retires can only have a life-long lease on the retention of the family home.- 'Sje-setd'if this regulation wasn't in effect the severed land and buildings from a farm mild be sold to Urban people when the fariner dies. Although the fainter didn't complain about the land useage, farm noises and smells, and urban person might and ask that agricultural useage be restricted. Miss Fisher said it's One rule In - panning that if there's a chance to cOmplain, someone will. "It's itiherent in human nature," she told the stizdents. She said planning department staff must always think in the long term, beyond the life span of present township residents, Miss Fisher has leen offering the planning presentation to Grade 9 to Grade 13 students in Huron high schools. She said although sttidents rarely attend' the public participation Sessions in the plan ning process, she hopes this introduction • will make them more aware of it in the future. Miss Pisher) who has a 13.A, geography, has been Working in the Retort County planning department for the past year, filling in for planner George Penfold Who is on sabbatical MISS Fisher students" responses to • a quettionalie about the introdluetien to the entIntY planning process indicate they find the program "educational," Nest year, with Sestorth reMlng iti Own secondary plan, Miss Fisher hopes SDHS teachers can continue discussions- and exercises on planning.